Featured talk by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (George Washington University), with response from Ben Woodard (Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario), at Speculative Medievalisms 2: A Laboratory-Atelier, held at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, on 16 September 2011 (organized and sponsored by the BABEL Working Group, the Petropunk Collective, and the Doctoral Program in English and Medieval Studies @The Graduate Center, CUNY). More information available here: http://speculativemedievalisms.blogspot.com/.